This picture of Atlantis approaching the International Space Station made me laugh:

That is all.

[UPDATE: OK, maybe that isn’t all. A lot of people don’t get why this picture made me laugh; I thought it looked funny because it overflows the frame and is upside-down compared to how we usually see it. It’s cute. As for the title, how do bats sleep?]

Not seeing the humor. Way cool picture, but it doesn’t make me laugh. Maybe a bit of a tear in the corner of my eye knowing that’s the last back-flip maneuver, but no laugh. What ever it is, I don’t see it.

But I do like it because it shows the shuttle from a perspective that we don’t get a lot. There’s a strong bias to show things “right side up” in photos, but in space, there is no obvious “up” or “down”. Seeing the shuttle like this helps drive home that point.

And yes, I always enjoy the extremely rare moments in sci-fi films where two spaceships meet each other and they are _not_ oriented the same way. How rare is that? I can’t even name one. I think that when the Enterprise first meets up with the Klingons in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country the ships are not aligned with each other, but I’m not sure.